Luciano Pavarotti

Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.

I was an elementary school teacher.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.